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Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman, a member of the Faculty Council, said FAS does not use biological toxins in quantities substantial enough to be regulated by the federal government...
While honors is currently rewarded according to a GPA cutoff, according to Feldman, the plan to switch it to a University-wide percent quota of 60 percent may encourage instructors to inflate individual grades in hopes of garnering more honors for their students...
...Feldman said he is less worried about grade inflation than he is about its companion phenomenon, grade comprehension. He said grade compression makes it harder to recognize exceptional students...
...Typically, in one of the upper level courses I teach an ‘A’ is approximately an 85 or better. Yet I’m always going to have one or two students who get a 98,” Feldman said. “There’s a huge difference in performance between those two grades. Yet they both get the same grades in the end. I find that frustrating...
...Both Feldman and Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell said that the problem is not that humanities professors are more lenient; they instead cited the differences between qualitative or quantitative grading and class structures across the divisions...